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Z. T. FRENCH.

LASTING JACK 0R HOLDER FOR BOOTS 0R SHOES.

No. 281,258; I Patented July 17, 1883.

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UNITE STATES PATENT FFIcE.

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LASTlNG-JACK OR HOLDER FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,258, dated. July 17, 1883.

Application filed May 19, 1883. (No model.)

To all whoflt it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ZACHARY T. FRENCH, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Lasting-Jacks or Holders forBoots or Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification,-like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for holdingthe upper of aboot upon a last in connection with asole while the edges of the upper and sole are presented to a solestitching machine to be united by a series of stitches.

This invention is an improvement on United States Patent N 0. 274,091, dated March 13, 1883, heretofore granted to me, to which reference may be had, and has for its object to sustain the arm of the shoe-holder in such mau nor that the shoe may be rotated as on a jack.

Figure 1, in side elevation, represents a last and holder to confine the upper thereon, the latter being, however, omitted; Fig. 2, a sec tional detail of part of a last-holder on the dotted lines so m, Fig. 1.

The last A, clamp e, loop m, screw 2), and spring-arm c, to which the clamp is attached, are all substantially the same in construction and operation as in my United States patent referred to, where the like devices are indicated by like letters. Herein the shank A of the holder is composed of two parts, 12 13, of sufficient length to form between them a long open space, A, for the reception of aboot-leg. The vertical or straight part 12 of the shank of the said holder is fitted in openings in lugs of a bearing-block, A bored to fit a pin or stud, A and thus serving to supp ort theholder so that it can be rotated about the pin or stud 0 .will lift the slide-block A out of engagement with the pin or stud A in order that he may present the boot while yet held by the holder to the stitch-forming devices of a sole-sewing machine. The slideblock A has a frictionspring, A, which bears upon one side of the part 12 of the shank, so that when the slideblock is removed from the pin or stud A it may be slid along on the part 12 into the dotted-line position, Fig. 1, where it will be entirely out of the way of the hand of the operator who holds the shank A by hand while the upper and sole are being united. The part 13 holds the clamping devices.

I claim I The upper-holding clamp having the shank A composed of portions 12 18, bent as described, to form a space, A", between them, and a pin, A", combined with abearing-block mounted in the said shank, whereby the holder may be supported to be rotated while fitting the upper to the last, and be removed from the pin to permit the upper and soleto be united, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two sub-' scribing witnesses. Y

ZAOHARY T. FRENCH.

\Vitnesses:

Jos. P. LIVERMonE, B. J. NoYEs. 

